11 Feb
2002
11 Feb
'02
4:31 p.m.
In the far distant past (On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 10:15 AM),
Ben Franchuk wrote:
And many warehouses have office space over top of the
main floor area so
you don't have to loose room in the warehouse. A bitch to heat how ever.
Do I have a deal for you and your warehouse. As you can imagine, the
heating season is rather short here in Arizona. As a consequence, I
moved my VAX 11/730 out to the car port this last summer when the only
possibility of running the beast was between 3 and 5 AM with the swamp
box going flat out.
A week or so ago I was going to deep six it, I then discovered this
bunch of squirrels (I collect old scientific instruments). The beast is
free to the first taker. The operable word here is TAKER. In addition to
the basic box, there is an expansion box with a 16 line mux and a tape
deck (9-track Emulex 1600/3200) with a spare deck thrown in. The system
is licensed at 4.?? and has a C compiler, a cross compiler for the Nasty
32000, and the development code for the Tri Sigma Factory Automation
Controller. Plus who knows what, since I didn't clean the disk. Plenty
of spare disks and tapes, to include the full DEC diagnostic.
If no one is interested, I'll consider parting the thing out.
CRC